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CLUNKY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clunky mean?
• CLUNKY (adjective)
The adjective CLUNKY has 2 senses:
1. lacking grace in movement or posture
2. making a clunking sound
Familiarity information: CLUNKY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: clunkier
Superlative: clunkiest
Superlative: clunkiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking grace in movement or posture
Synonyms:
clumsy; clunky; gawky; ungainly; unwieldy
Context example:
heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
Similar:
awkward (lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Making a clunking sound
Similar:
audible; hearable (heard or perceptible by the ear)
Derivation:
clunk (a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects))
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